One of the American papers observes of Mr. Wentworth, a member of Congress for a district of Illinois, that "he is so tall, that when he addresses the people, instead of mounting a stump, as is usual in the West, they have to dig a hole for him to stand in!" Another paper, which goes the whole ticket against Mr. Wentworth, politely observes that they "dig a hole for him not because he is tall, but because he never feels at home except when he is up to his chin in dirt." COOLNESS.--309. He would eat oysters while his neighbour's house was in flames--always provided that his own was insured. Coolness! he's a piece of marble carved into a broad grin. NAMING CHILDREN IN AMERICA.--310. On Long Island, a Mr. Crabb named a child "Through-much-tribulation-we-enter-into-the-kingdom-of-Heaven Crabb." The child went by the name of Tribby. Scores of such names could be cited. In Saybrook, Connecticut, is a family by the name of Beman, whose children are successively named as follows:--1. Jonathan Hubbard Lubbard Hunk Dan Dunk Peter Jacobus Lackny Christian Beman. 2. Prince Fredrick Henry Jacob Zaccheus Christian Beman. 3. Queen Caroline Sarah Rogers Ruhamah Christian Beman. 4. Charity Freelove Ruth Grace Mercy Truth Faith and Hope and Peace Pursue I'll-have-no-more-to-do-for-that-will-go-clear-through-Christian Beman. A POLITE MAN.--311. "My deceased uncle," says an American writer, "was the most polite man in the world. He was making a voyage on the Mississippi and the boat sank. My uncle was just on the point of drowning. He got his head above water for once, took off his hat, and said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, will you please excuse me?' and down he went." FINE WRITING.--312. We like fine writing when it is properly applied, so we appreciate the following burst of eloquence:--"As the ostrich uses both legs and wings when the American courser bounds in her rear--as the winged lightnings leap from the heavens when the thunderbolts are loosed--so does a little boy run when a big dog is after him." "MAILS" AND FEMALES.--313. A New England postmaster complains that too much courting goes on in his office. The females give him more trouble than the "mails." AN UNKIND REMINDER.--314. A negro boy was driving a mule, when the animal suddenly stopped short and refused to move. "Won't go, eh?" said the boy; "feel grand, do you? I s'pose you forget your fader was a jackass." "CLIMACTERIC SUBLIMITY."--315. The following peroration to an eloquent harangue, addressed to a jury by a lawyer in Ohio, is a rare specimen of climacteric sublimity:--"And now the shades of night had shrouded the earth in darkness. All nature lay wrapped in solemn thought, when these defendant ruffians came rushing like a mighty torrent from the hills, down upon the abodes of peace, broke open the plaintiff's door, separated the weeping mother from her crying infant, and took away--my client's rifle, gentlemen of the jury, for which we claim fifteen dollars."